And by “Apocalypse now” they mean illustrating it with a scene where American soldiers massacre civilians.

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      No, that’s not hyperbole

      “Chicago [is] about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR,” the post continued.

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        Are all the people who couldn’t be bothered to vote happy now? Do they still think the democrats would have been just as bad?

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          You actually think those people watch the news and get accurate information? Misinformed people are always going to learn the wrong lesson.

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            I am finding lately the news isn’t talking about what I want it to talk about ie. The impending hostile invasion of Chicago. Also barely heard about the protests on labor day and am barely hearing about the concentration camps.

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          Some of them very much seem to be. I still hear ding-a-lings bitching about Biden (vague complaints that don’t really name any single thing other than he wasn’t in front of the cameras all the time like our narcissist in chief is these days and that he’s old - but fuck, Taco is old as fuck, too and is crazy, and surrounds himself with crazy).

          Others keep on supporting Taco because “he’s not status quo” and he’s “not a politician” and he’s “shaking things up”.

          Yeah, full on fucking Civil War where millions end up dead is also not status quo, either, but what the fuckity fuck.

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            If we have a civil war, Biden will be remembered as a Buchanon, a man too corrupt and craven to do what was necessary to stand for justice and prevent a civil war.

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              The dems will be remembered like the SDP, libs who birthed fascism, then handed power to fascists and continued to try to work with them, against the left, until the fascists realized they would better serve as examples than partners.

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          It is extremely unethical to blame the voters for the sins of politicians. You don’t need to pander and carry water for corporate Dems. They’re not going to pick you. They knew exactly what they had to do to win the election, but they decided that they knew better than their voters. It is unamerican to blame the voters for the sins of their leaders.

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            It is ridiculous to give a free pass to voters who voted for mask-off, celebrated hate and bigotry. Blaming the DNC while Trump 2028 flags are flying 6 months into his 2nd and legally final term is deflection at best and bad-faith shit posting at worst.

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              Republicans are satanic. We know this. But they’re beyond salvation and there’s no point in really considering them. They’re demons and will vote for evil at every turn.

              Thankfully there aren’t enough Republican demons to actually win elections. They’re going to vote for maximum evil every election, but that hasn’t changed and will never change. They’re barely even human beings at this point; they’re mindless zombies brainwashed by conservative media. There’s no point focusing or considering them, as they’re a constant in any election. They will vote pro-demon every time. Bitching about Republicans is like bitching about literal Satan, the guy with the horns. Yeah, Satan’s evil. That’s his whole deal. Bitching about it won’t change anything.

              The reason we focus on Democrats is that they’re the only side that actually can potentially do any good in the electoral system. I hold them responsible for willingly handing the country over to the devils. They decided they would rather hand the country over to the demons rather than adopt the policies their base actually wanted. They lost the election. The demons just kept doing what they’ll always do, be demonic. Complaining about Satan is completely pointless and unproductive.

              Your attitude is actually one of the main reasons Democrats lost. Kamala and the DNC aren’t willing to completely write off Republicans, despite all evidence of their absolute irredeemable evil. And you’re here trying to pin the election on them, as if they’re not just an unchanging constant in our system. The DNC actually tried to reach out to them, as they, like yourself, believed that some redemption was actually possible among Republican voters. You’re still focusing on Republicans. In reality you should ignore them all together as they are completely beyond saving.

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                A. Invoking the evil of Satan against a literal Satanist is bringing piss to a shit fight.

                B. Dehumanization is a tool of fascism; you are the problem.

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    The blue state governors really need to activate their state guard units and prepare. In North Carolina the governor can call up all males between 18 and 60 into state duty. I don’t think it has been done since the Civil War and I don’t know about other states be the governors need to do something. I know Trump is looking for a reason to call for martial law but fuck me this has to end.

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    In about a month we’ll see headlines about judges ruling that Trump’s declaration of war against America is illegal but the war will rage on anyway

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    Gonna post the same thing here as I did in another post about this:

    I once accidentally scheduled a vacation to Chicago during Mexican Independence Day, which apparently is a huge deal in Chicago. When I got there, the entire downtown area was completely shut down as Mexicans had been roaring up and down every street in trucks for the last two days. The Chicago PD had blockaded every exit off the highway within two miles of downtown to try and stop it. It didn’t- it just limited them to doing it on the highway breakdown lanes and the actual fucking grass medians.

    The moral of the story? If the above is what the Mexican population of Chicago does for fun, I’d dread to see what they do in the face of an actual threat.

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      The mayor has dark skin. Its a Democratic state. Its where African-Americans ran to avoid lyching when Trump was young. Its a place Americans are likely to pass through if we need to flee the country

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    alongside a doctored photo of himself depicted as Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore from the Vietnam War film Apocalypse Now.

    more like:

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      The illusion of heroism and patriotism in the American military, perpetuated by Hollywood, was nothing but propaganda.

      The entire military industrial complex and surveillance state (secret police, aka “intelligence”) has done nothing to stop the rise of fascism, or its domestic terrorists, including Trump. As many of us have long warned, both were likely the attack vector that enabled the cancer of fascism to grow and fester deep within government, hidden from the populace under a thick secrecy of “national security”.